of our books, all of our financials, everything is open to the gao, the public accounting office which is, you know, works for the congress and the government and can look at anything it wants to look at. and, third, we also have an independent inspector general that is able to, you know, evaluate any aspect of the fed's financials or activities that it would like. if you'd like to see more about this, the fed's web site, federalreserve.gov, has a detailed discussion of all the various audits that the federal reserve goes through. so all of our financials, all of our activities are thoroughly audited with one exception. and that exception is that in the law which, um, created the government accountability office, the gao, there is an exception made for monetary policy. in other words, gao can do anything it wants at the federal reserve, but what it can't do is go in and audit a monetary policy decision. now, what the audit the fed bill would do is very simple, it would strike that clause. so if the audit the fed bill passed, then a congressman who didn't like the fed's latest interest rat
